On 04 Aug, 2007, at 22:40, Jody Paul wrote:

I am having trouble when I attempt to install any ports that depend on ncurses. Running on a MacBook Pro (Intel) with OS X 10.4.10 I get the following when trying to install the ncurses port. Any advice on what I should be doing to make this work? Thanks!!!

Is there any chance that your MacPorts installation was copied/ migrated from a ppc Mac? I see two problems in your transcript: * it's referring to /opt/local/lib/libformw.dylib etc., which are installed by ncursesw, and shouldn't be there if ncursesw hasn't yet been installed * it's saying that these files are compiled for ppc The simplest explanation is that these files were put there by a ppc installation of MacPorts. If that's the case, the simplest solution is to move /opt/local aside and reinstall from the disk image. If you can't install ncurses, I'm guessing you haven't been able to install much at all. Chris

% sudo port install ncurses ---> Building ncursesw with target all Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/ local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel _ncursesw/work/ncurses-5.6" && make all " returned error 2 Command output: /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -O2 -no-cpp-precomp -no-cpp- precomp -o bs ../obj_s/bs.o -L/opt/local/lib -Wl,- search_paths_first -I../test -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include - I/opt/local/include -U_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 - DSIGWINCH=28 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DNDEBUG -I/opt/local/include/ ncursesw -O2 -no-cpp-precomp -no-cpp-precomp -dynamic `echo "-L../ lib -lformw -lmenuw -lpanelw -lncursesw " | sed -e 's/-lform.*- lpanel[^ ]*//'` /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -O2 -no-cpp-precomp -no-cpp-precomp -o cardfile ../obj_s/cardfile.o -L/opt/local/lib -Wl,- search_paths_first -I../test -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include - I/opt/local/include -U_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 - DSIGWINCH=28 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DNDEBUG -I/opt/local/include/ ncursesw -O2 -no-cpp-precomp -no-cpp-precomp -dynamic -L../lib - lformw -lmenuw -lpanelw -lncursesw /usr/bin/ld: warning /opt/local/lib/libformw.dylib cputype (18, architecture ppc) does not match cputype (7) for specified -arch flag: i386 (file not loaded) /usr/bin/ld: warning /opt/local/lib/libmenuw.dylib cputype (18, architecture ppc) does not match cputype (7) for specified -arch flag: i386 (file not loaded) /usr/bin/ld: warning /opt/local/lib/libpanelw.dylib cputype (18, architecture ppc) does not match cputype (7) for specified -arch flag: i386 (file not loaded) /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: _field_buffer _field_opts_off _form_driver _form_fields _form_sub _form_win _free_field _free_form _new_field _new_form _new_panel _panel_window _post_form _set_field_back _set_field_buffer _set_field_just _set_form_sub _set_form_win _top_panel _unpost_form _update_panels collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [cardfile] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ncursesw Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. [JPTravelerPro:~] jody%